If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the be...st and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag... Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair, The pink paint on the innocence of fear; Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any re...ason, you'll never make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane of... the grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived ...clearly because few things stay put. Every mood or emotion is mixed or diluted by contrary and extraneous elements. The clarity of art--the precise evocation of mood in the novel, or of summer twilight in a painting--is like waking to a bright landscape after a long fitful slumber, or the fragrance of chicken soup after a week of head cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will ...not use abstinence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »